Archived; click post to view.Excerpt: Click to play Virtual Worlds London I was at the Virtual Worlds Conference in London. Unlike at the time of the last post, I was at this conference physically, in real life, not attending the talks, but interviewing the exibitors about the Virtual Worlds and services they were providing. I was there to do two things – the first was to report on the state-of-play about the use of Virtual Worlds in education and the second to network and try out a proof-of-concept experiment binding several technologies together that could be used in schools and colleges. Photo attribution to epredator CC some rights reserved…

Archived; click post to view.Excerpt: Photo attribution TKCS on Flickr CC some rights reserved licence. As an example of what I mean by mindset and informal learning in the previous post, I’m going to give a few examples in a series of articles on how people are joining up to create new and exciting practice and spaces in and outside education like never before. Informal/ Formal Real Life and Virtual Connections Practitioners are now connected by several informal networks that enable them to share resources at a blistering speed and to distill and innovate what they do in highly interactive ways; and the ways they are joining up…

Archived; click post to view.Excerpt: Photo attribution BitBoy on Flickr CC licence I have just been reading Josie Fraser’s amazing post called Notes Towards Digital Literacy over at SocialTech. As she so succinctly puts it: “However, while it is a critical area of development and resourcing, e-safety alone is not enough. To regard it as anything except a critical element within a wider digital literacy framework, and to attempt to teach it alongside an antiquated, generally programme-specific ICT education is to short change our learners, and to fail to recognise the technological, social and economic shifts that have take place globally. To not integrate and model good…

Archived; click post to view.Excerpt: A little bit of history was made today of all days (it is the first day of the Handheld Learning Conference but it’s not that) in that Gordon Brown’s speech was broadcast/ blogged live from a Mobile Phone.Two Social media bloggers, Documentally and Sizemore got access to Gordon Brown speaking at the Thompson Reuters Newsmaker event about the timely economic measures and this was broadcast in a ripple effect out through the blogging community using such social media tools/ sites as Qik, Seesmic, Twitter, Phreadz and quite a few others.This reminds me of reading the real time feeds from when…

A quick video to show the power of video within the Second Life Environment. I could take this one stage further and put this video in there and then record that but maybe that would be taking things too far.

This is a recording of a the video lecture cube I'm working on in SL to play Screencast content about Web 2.0 in education. A work in progress…